Economic and Trade Policy
Economic and trade policies are a major focus for the University and for policy makers. These researchers are actively engaging with the policy process and would welcome further engagement from policy makers.
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Specialist Teaching Fellow
George Applebey has been teaching law at the University of Birmingham since 1973. In his teaching at the present time, he is associated with Contract law, Sale of Goods law (particularly Consumer Sales) and Regulatory Criminal law particularly in the area of Health and Safety and also corporate criminal liability with particular reference to Corporate Manslaughter. Both Consumer Sales law and ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 4924
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- g.applebey@bham.ac.uk

Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Deputy Head of School
Anthony Arnull specialises in the law of the European Union. He worked at the European Court of Justice from 1989-92 and was Head of Birmingham Law School between 2006 and 2009. He was Acting Head of the College of Arts & Law at Birmingham from April to August 2015. Professor Arnull is the author of The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual (Leicester University Press, 1990); The ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 6295
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- a.m.arnull@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Dr Luke R.A. Butler is a commercial lawyer with a general research interest in all aspects of law, policy and theory relating to government contracts and government commerce. Luke is best known for his research on regulation in complex industries, in particular, but not exclusively, the defence sector. At Birmingham, Luke teaches an unusually diverse range of subjects both in his areas of ...
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- 0121 414 7029
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- l.r.a.butler@bham.ac.uk

Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Regional Economic Engagement
Director of the City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI)
Professor of International Business and Innovation
Simon Collinson has recently taken up the role of Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Regional Economic Engagement at the University of Birmingham. He is also Director of City-REDI, the City-Region Economic Development Institute and a Professor of International Business and Innovation at Birmingham Business School where he was the Dean from 2012-2016. Simon is Chair of the Chartered Association ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 9672
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- s.collinson@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in United States History
Tom Cutterham is a historian of Revolutionary America and the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world. He teaches the history of North America from the first English colonisations to the end of the nineteenth century, including courses on women in the American Revolution and the meaning of freedom in American history. Following his first book, Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the ...
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- 0121 414 5747
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- t.cutterham@bham.ac.uk

Professor in Law and Ethics
Sylvie Delacroix focuses on the intersection between law and ethics, with a particular interest in Machine Ethics, Agency and the role of habit within moral decisions (Habitual Ethics?, Bloomsbury, 2019). Her current research focuses on the design of computer systems meant for morally-loaded contexts. She is also considering the potential inherent in ‘bottom-up’ Data ...
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- s.delacroix@bham.ac.uk

Professor of HR Management & Employment Relations
Programme Director: MSc Human Resources Management
Tony is Professor of HR Management & Employment Relations. He joined Birmingham Business School in May 2018, from Bangor University. Tony has twenty years of employment relations experience as an academic, researcher, and journalist, including eight years working for Industrial Relations News, Dublin.
He has various research interests in the area of work and employment, and is an Editorial ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 7702
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- t.dobbins@bham.ac.uk

Professor of International Legal Studies
Rilka Dragneva-Lewers is Professor of International Legal Studies at Birmingham Law School. She works on regional integration, EU external policy, legal reform and international diffusion of norms with a special reference to Eastern Europe. Her recent publications focus on Eurasian economic integration and its overlaps with EU initiatives in the post-Soviet region. Rilka’s work has strong ...
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- 0121 414 3146
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- r.dragnevalewers@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Economics
Director of Admissions and Recruitment
Professor Robert Elliott is an applied economist who works at the intersection of international economics, development economics, environmental and energy economics and international business. He has a particular interest in the Chinese economy, firm behaviour, natural disasters and the impact of globalisation on the environment.
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- +44 (0) 121 414 7700
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- r.j.elliott@bham.ac.uk

Barber Professor of Law
Professor Enonchong is the author of three major practitioner works in the field of banking and commercial law. He has advised in a number of complex international commercial disputes and has acted as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations
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- +44 (0)121 414 6283
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- n.e.enonchong@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
I am a lecturer in corpus-based discourse analysis. My research focuses on two main areas: corporate discourse and evaluative language.
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- +44 (0) 121 415 8346
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- m.fuoli@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Regional Economic Development
After completing an undergraduate degree in geography, Anne has spent nearly all of her career conducting applied research of relevance to academia and policy in research centres/ institutes in the higher education sector.
She started her career at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) in Newcastle. Apart from a short stint at the Department for City and Regional Planning ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 9666
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- a.e.green.1@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Modern History
My main interest lies in post war Germany, the political, social and economic reconstruction of the country (including Allied occupation policy) against the backdrop of the Cold War.
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- +44 (0)121 414 5759
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- a.gruenbacher@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History
Director, Centre for Modern and Contemporary History
I am an historian of colonial empire with a special focus on the Middle East and the Mediterranean in the twentieth century.
I work on the discourse and politics of economic development in the French League of Nations Mandate in Syria and Lebanon, on the history of Fordism in the post-Ottoman Middle East, and on the global history of colonial commodities and natural resources.
For full details ...
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- +44 (0)121 41 48113
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- s.jackson.1@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Studies
An anthropologist by education, I enjoy doing interdisciplinary research. My main interest is the production of heritage in post/colonial contexts and the associated politics of history, social memory and development, including local as well as transnational relations and practices, from heritage management to tourism and the social lives of the people living near designated heritage sites.
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- +44 (0)121 414 5498
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- h.jorgensen@bham.ac.uk

Professor
CEPLER Director
Professor Robert Lee is the Director of the Centre for Legal Education and Research at the University of Birmingham. He has acted as specialist adviser to the European Parliament, the European Commission, the House of Commons and the National Assembly for Wales and has worked for the Department for the Environment in Northern Ireland (drafting environmental legislation), the ...
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- 0121 414 5864
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- r.g.lee@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Accounting and Taxation
Andy has been a member of the Birmingham Business School for over 25 years and is currently its Director of Business Development. He is also the Director of the Research Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM). For the 4 years to November 2016 he was the Deputy Head (Associate Dean) of the School, was Interim Head of School during 2012. For the four prior years he was the Head ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 6677
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- a.lymer@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Dr Maureen Mapp is a lawyer whose research and teaching interests are in public law and private law particularly how to bridge the normative gap between law and non-state ethno cultural norms. In this regard, Maureen has provided technical expertise to the Commonwealth Secretariat on adoption of cryptocurrencies and their impact on agricultural based economies. In collaboration with UNAFRI, ...
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- +4 (0)121 414 2886
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- m.o.mapp@bham.ac.uk

Reader in Law
Birmingham Fellow
Dr McAuliffe’s principal area of research focuses on the relationship between law, language and translation in the EU legal order. By clarifying the ways in which language plays a key role in determining judicial outcomes at the EU level, she challenges EU scholarship to look beyond more conventional approaches to the development of a rule of law that draw on law alone. Her work ...
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- 0121 414 7269
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- k.mcauliffe@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer
Dr Claire McIvor is a tort lawyer whose main research interests are: (i) liability for the acts of others (both vicarious and non-vicarious); (ii) public authority liability in negligence (particularly police liability), and more recently, (iii) legal applications of Epidemiology.
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- +44 (0)121 414 6324
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- c.mcivor@bham.ac.uk

Chair, Regional Economic Development
Currently, Raquel Ortega-Argilés holds the Chair in Regional Economic Development at the department of Strategy and International Business and the City-REDI research institute at Birmingham Business School, The University of Birmingham, UK. Her current research work focuses Productivity, Innovation, Regional development, SMEs, entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics and on regional and ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 6761
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- r.ortegaargiles@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Cultural Heritage
Director, Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage
I am Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage - a major inter-disciplinary research and graduate Institute working with the World Heritage Site and associated museums of Ironbridge.
My interests lie in how we produce and consume categories of heritage within changing cultural and cross-cultural contexts. I am particularly interested in how tourists experience ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 3119
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- m.d.robinson@bham.ac.uk

Reader in African History and Anthropology
Departmental Head of Postgraduate Studies (Taught and Research)
I work on the history and anthropology of twentieth-century West Africa, with a focus on Hausa and Tuareg societies in the Republic of Niger. My recent publications focus on slavery; emancipation; labour; migrations; governance; and the history and impacts of planned development.
Personal website: www.benedettarossi.com
- Telephone
- +44 (0)121 41 47343
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- b.rossi@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Social Policy
Karen is a Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, as well as being Director of Research for the College of Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM).
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- +44(0)121 415 8565
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- k.rowlingson@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Economics
Head of Department
Professor Kimberley Scharf is Head of the Department of Economics at Birmingham Business School.
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- k.scharf@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Company Law in Context
Deputy Director of Research (environment)
Professor Talbot writes and teaches on company law and corporate governance from a law in context approach, with particular emphasis on the political economy of the company. She has written several books on company law and corporate governance as well as many scholarly articles. Her current project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, ‘Making the Company Fit for Social Purpose’, deals ...
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- 0121 414 3631
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- l.e.talbot@bham.ac.uk

Professor of European Law and Policy
The research of Martin Trybus aims to make a contribution to the understanding and development of the Law of the European Union, especially its economic and constitutional aspects, to establish ‘European Union Defence and Security Law’ as a separate legal subject, and to contribute to the understanding and development of European Union Public Procurement Law.
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- +44 (0)121 414 6330
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- m.trybus@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Law
Dr Ben Warwick’s research explores how economic factors affect human rights (and especially socio-economic rights). He is interested in the ways that laws and the institutions that enforce them change under such pressures. This has led him to write on the related questions of crisis, neoliberalism, and the reversal of rights protections. He is a specialist in international human rights, the ...
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- 0121 414 6288
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- b.t.warwick@bham.ac.uk

Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics
Karen Yeung is the University of Birmingham’s first Interdisciplinary Chair, taking up the post of Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics at the University of Birmingham in the School of Law and the School of Computer Science in January 2018. She has been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Melbourne Law School since 2016.
Karen is actively involved ...
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- 0121 414 6298
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- k.yeung@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Dr Chen Zhu is committed to teaching and researching intellectual property (especially copyright). His publications have appeared in leading peer-reviewed academic journals such as Social & Legal Studies and International Journal of Information Technology and Law.
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- 0121 414 8564
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- c.w.zhu@bham.ac.uk